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Sad fact about animal rescue groups
please disabuse me if I am incorrect....recently I have been having a
miserable time in my efforts to adopt/find another animal or two to add to my household....no need to go into a long story, but I have not had any help from any rescues and this had turned me sour on them. I'll eventually sort this out on my own as usual. Events of recent months and especially the last day or so have caused me to think more clearly about these groups as a whole and I have come to the conslusion that in a state like New Jersey, where I live there are more of them than are necessary. Nobody loves animals more than I do, but the notion of true "rescue" seems to have gotten almost as meaningless as "shelter". What is importantant is the number of dogs that need homes and the number of households that will take in a dog in any given year. Rescues are aleays in dire need of money, Why ? Largely because they don't make enough placements and thus don't get enough fees. Why is that ? Because they are in competition with other rescues to fill a finite/set number of openings per year. If 200 rescues can pull a sufficient number of dogs from shelters or the street to fill all of the open places in households who would go to a shelter or rescue then 250 rescues just glut the market, like too many restaurants in an area. More rescues do not create more adoptors or adoptions. There will always be enough rescue operations in N.J. to suit the need to faciitate the movement of dogs from kill shelter to new home. They will always get enough funding to place as many dogs as can be placed. I was almost certain that I was going to leave big money to a rescue group, now I see it as a waste, just propping up one group without helping dogs in the main at all. SD |
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Sad fact about animal rescue groups
Good heavens! Shelters and rescue groups from NJ post dogs to breed and
type rescue groups all the time, indicating to me that there are far from enough homes for all of the dogs on hand. Each organization has it's own policies and procedures, to include criteria for adoption. That leads me to think that perhaps you aren't fitting their criteria in some way or another. For instance, when I get a request for two purebred dogs of the breed I work with, my little antennae extend and start wiggling.... Why would this person, who usually hasn't even met a dog of this breed, want to adopt two initially, instead of living with one for a while before seeking a second dog? Some are extremely reluctant to place a dog in a home that already has multiple dogs... or do not currently have dogs that do well with other dogs. If they deal primarily with toy size dogs and the requesting home has one or more big dogs, that can put the kibosh on things. Or when someone has a laundry list of requirements for a dog to be adopted.... female, between age x and age y, with one blue eye and one brown eye, rare curled tail, and obedience trained to the utility level, loves toddlers, cats, guinea pigs and parrots, and is of an uncommon or rare color.... with no behavior issues and just loves to have it's nails trimmed.... no medical issues.... the inquirer isn't going to get far in the application process. Some will not place a dog outside a specific geographical area. I know of one rescue organization in Los Angeles that only places dogs in a rather small portion of the LA Basin. Some purebred rescue groups do a police check on all applicants.... So look at yourself and figure out what about you is causing you to be turned down. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Hey Jo et al
I never wrote that I was being turned down, the problem is an absence of
dogs I will consider. I never wrote that rescues are not desperate to place dogs. I wrote that there are more rescues than are needed to furnish dogs to whatever homes are available. The only additional dogs the unnecessary rescues save are those they have in foster, which is a low number. I have contacted many municipal shelters looking for one or two dogs I can take that are in immediate danger of euthanization. Result : no replies. Knuckle headed responses such as these are why I have been nearly totally turned off by contact with rescues. Sanctuaries are a different matter, they save lives and the more the better. My focus in eventually leaving big money for animals has shifted from rescues to sanctuaries, but then there is the concern that the money will be misused by a small operation and I am not prepared to bail out an operation that is going under unless I am a part of it. Hard to believe, but true, there is not a single sanctuary for senior/unadoptable dogs in N. J. SD |
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Sad fact about animal rescue groups
"sighthounds & siberians" wrote in message
... [... disenchantment with the large number of rescue groups deleted ...] Well, if New Jersey has enough rescue groups to save all the dogs that need saving, then New Jersey and its inhabitants are lucky indeed. That's certainly not the case in Ohio. And I don't believe that it's the case in New Jersey, either. I believe what the OP is saying... is that there is more than enough rescue groups to adopt out the dogs that *can* be adopted out. This is far lower than the number of dogs that need saving. So the excess groups help by being a buffer and holding dogs temporarily. You can carry a ton of canaries in a half-ton truck... if *half* of the canaries are flying at any one time. :-) -- ++ | Charles Richmond | ++ |
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Hey Jo et al
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Hey Jo et al
this reply is more knuckleheaded nonsence...support your claim that more
rescue groups would lead to more placements, does not make sense, even the idea that more groups would help more than the dogs in foster is laughable. Support my claim ? easy all rescue fosters are always full, the reason : not enough adoptors, most rescues take the most adoptable dogs. The idea that shelters are holding back dogs from adoptors ia also laughable. All the shelters I've checked have only easily adotable dogs, tough to place agressive breeds, or immediately put down sick dogs. My local high kill shelter just kills the sick ones when they come in. I just had the thought that I might try to intervene in that cruelty, but I would probably run into " policy " and possibly have a tough time finding a dog or two I could save, that is fit in with my circle. As to what I have done, or could do, that isn't really the point at hand. I was considering bailing out a local rescue, but as I've written I believe that there are too many as is, I also came across a sanctuary in another state that is gong under, a big pot of cash would save their operation, but I need something in which I play a major part. I'm possibly open to donating time and money now, but I may just leave it when I go...if I find a set up that satisfies my concerns. SD |
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Hey Jo et al
Hm. That wasn't the way I interprettted what you were trying to say.
Supporting a sanctuary is EXPENSIVE, as you've already discovered. It also requires a lot of space and some isolation to prevent complaints from neighbors. So reletively crowded, high cost of living states like much of NJ aren't going to be prime prospects for a sanctuary that meets state department of agriculture requirements for a shelter or a kennel. Now.... dealing with Animal Care and Control shelters (by any name) that fall under city or county governments is a bit different than dealing with private rescues and shelters. They have policies and procedures pertaining to adoptions, too. THey do have adoptable dogs. Most don't get excited by phone calls and emails. They want to see your eyeballs. Get yourself in there and look at dogs. OFTEN. They have adoptable dogs. All of the adoptables do NOT go to rescues. I could walk into the three county shelters nearest me in GA and SC and find one or more dogs I'd like to adopt on any given day. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Hey Jo et al - Added
I have been operating a nationwide purebred rescue network for 20+ years
and deal with county shelters constantly. They turn to us when they have an adoptable dog that hasn't been adopted by local folks or pulled by a local shelter. Locals get first choice. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Hey Jo et al - Added
I've read that the euthanasia rate in Southern states can run as high as
90%, the problem in NJ. is the pits, nice dogs if not badly treated, but they dominate the shelter population, as high as 95% in Newark. I've given up on thinking rescues are a good investment in time or money...they compete with each other for placements and donations. I've gone to shelters enough to see that they have pleanty of adoptable dogs.... which are either adopted or rescued. The rest are pits or rotties and they don't last long. I was contacted today by a N.Y. shelter about a fourteen year old Spaniel, told them I'll wait to see if she's adopted or rescued, I'm on her list, but if things go the way I've outlined before I suspect she'll be rescued/adopted. |
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